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The airport chiefly has domestic flights with a small number of international flights. While the airport serves a growing metro area with more than 2.5 million residents, passenger numbers at Daegu airport have been declining since 2004, the year KTX highspeed rail reached Daegu. The 2013 number of about 1.1 million is half the number of passengers that were using the airport before 2003.

The existing dirt and gravel runway was improved by the 822nd Engineer Aviation Battalion commencing on 18 July and the Battalion subsequently prepared a parallel 5,000 feet (1,500 m) PSP runway by 7 August.[7]

Taegu Airfield was abandoned in the face of Korean People's Armyassault on Taegu in mid-August 1950, but USAF units began reoccuppying the base on 23 September 1950.[9] The 822nd Battalion had returned to Taegu on 17 September and soon resurfaced the original dirt and gravel runway with PSP and extended its length to 5,700 feet (1,700 m).[10]

By adopting an arrangement concept symbolizing Ouga (The song of five friends: water, rock, pine tree, bamboo, and moon) by Yun Seon Do and the shape of a flying crane, the terminal has a small but comfortable environment. The parking lot at the airport can accommodate about 1,097 cars and has a fully automatic parking system; it opens from 6 am to 10 pm.[12]